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This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. By Sarah T. Phillips. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, index. $23.99, paper.)
      Many historians have written about the Progressive Era conservation movement, but New Deal conservation policies have not received the attention they deserve. Sarah Phillips's book does for the 1920s and 1930s what Samuel P. Hays's Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (Cambridge, MA, 1959) did for the Progressive Era. She moves conservation from the fringes of the New Deal to the center. This Land, This Nation is a model of imagination, exhaustive research, and judicious reasoning. . . .
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